Fuller, Smith & Turner is warning that Britons face a nasty hangover next year once the effects of the Government’s debt binge kick in
Read full article...Despite massive injections of public money and government promises to eat up bad debt, banks are still being stingy about lending to UK businesses figures suggest
London-focused pub and brewing house Young’s had cheer for investors today when it increased its interim dividend payment for the 13th year running
There was rising talk in the City that the WM Morrison success story could be running out of steam, one day after it emerged that the chief executive is jumping ship
When the end came it was brutal...
Marks & Spencer shocked the City and the retail industry today when it appointed the boss of Britain’s fourth-biggest supermarket as its new chief executive
London beer drinkers are loosening their wallets and their throats, the latest numbers from the Capital Pub Company suggest
Is JD Wetherspoon the most decent, most likeable business in Britain? The thought occurred the other day over a reassuringly cheap pint one afternoon (shut it, I start work really early).
Enterprise Inns’ chief executive Ted Tuppen said today that “there are too many pubs in this country”
Britain's obsession with red carpet outfits has not wavered in the recession with soaring sales at online fashion house Asos, best known for cut-price replicas of stars' outfits
Majestic Wine showed today that its strategy of being as different as possible from the supermarket giants some say are ruining the trade is working
Insurance takeover vehicle Resolution reckons it has digested Friends Provident and is ready for its next meal
J Sainsbury looked set for a bumper Christmas today, as it shrugged off talk that it is losing market share and posted a sharp rise in sales and profits
Pearl Group, the outfit set up by Hugh Osmond to manage a closed book of insurance policies, is pushing for a full stock market listing in London next year
Alison Cooper was today named as the next boss of Imperial Tobacco, becoming only the fifth woman to head a FTSE company
Holidaymakers are cutting trips short, business people are trading down and there’s no money to build new hotels
What has Merrill Lynch got on Lloyds chief executive Eric Daniels? It must be something hideous — how else to understand why the investment bank is still one of Lloyds' lead advisers despite the horrors of the last year.
Kraft today formally launched a £9.8 billion takeover bid for Cadbury, taking the fight to acquire the business directly to shareholders
Further evidence that Britain’s worst recession since the Second World War is over emerged, with upbeat figures issued by the OECD
Former Reckitt Benckiser executive Javed Ahmed oversaw his first results statement as boss of Tate & Lyle today, and reported reasonably sweet figures
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